In honor of Women’s History Month and saluting the history of the Black Press, we place our spotlight on Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, an American investigative...
By: Stacy Brown, NNPA From Freedom’s Journal to the North Star to John Abbott’s Chicago Defender, African American-owned newspapers have sparked fires for truth and...
Autherine Lucy Foster, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from historically Black Miles College in 1952, and whose legal battle with the University of...
By Nse Ufot, executive director of the New Georgia Project Across the country, we are witnessing the continued trend of Republican leaders passing measures that...
By: Omowale Luthuli- Allen As portrayed in the captivating documentary “Summer of Soul,” the 1960’s was a time when the Negro and the colored...
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, one of three daughters of Benjamin M. Jordan and Arlyne Patten Jordan. Barbara...
State Representative, Hon. Albert Ely Edwards was born in Houston, Texas on March 19, 1937. Edwards is the sixth child out of the 16 children...
Ida Mae Ellison was born on February 22, 1922 in Gonzalez, Texas. She attended Prairie View A&M University when it was just a college and...
By: TSU Texas Southern University establishes endowment, names street in honor of community, spiritual and civil rights icon (Houston) February 25, 2022 – As part...
By: Stacy Brown On Friday, February 25, President Joe Biden made Judge Jackson his choice to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in...
